Professor Meri, Seppo Kalevi MD, PhD,
Head of the Haartman Institute,
Professor of Immunology, Dept of Bacteriology and Immunology,
University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital
E-mail: seppo.meri(at)helsinki.fi
Internet: www.hi.helsinki.fi/complement

Date and place of birth: July 1, 1957, Kerimäki, Finland

Education and training:
1984 M.D. and Licentiate in Medicine, Univ of Helsinki
1987 Doctor of Medical Sciences (PhD), University of Helsinki
1989 Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, University of London
1991 Docent in Immunology, University of Helsinki
1996 Specialist in Clinical Microbiology

Honorary positions Chairman of The Finnish Society for Immunology (1999-2001)
President of The Scandinavian Society for Immunology (2001-2007)
President of The European Complement Network (2001-2003)
Board of the International Union of Immunological Societies 2004-
Board of the Helsinki Biomedical Graduate School 1997-2005
Chairman of the Doctoral Committee of the University of Helsinki, 2001-2007

Other academic and professional merits and activitiesAd hoc-referee for > 20 scientific journals
Referee for Centers of Excellence, Clinical Medicine in Norway, 2003; Medical Faculty, Tartu, Estonia, XI/2001; Centers of Excellence in Estonia, 2005 (Estonian Research Council); Centers of Excellence in Norway, 2006
Referee for Professorship: 9 times
Referee for Doctorship in Medical Sciences: A total of 20, of which 3 abroad
Official Dissertation Opponent: total: 15 of which 7 abroad
Organizer of International Meetings:
Bioscience Days-Haartman Symposium, 9/1997, Organizer and Chairman
7th European Meeting on Complement in Human Disease, 6/1999; Meeting President
25th Anniversary Meeting of the Finnish Society for Immunology, 11/1999; Organizer and Chairman
Proteomics 2000, Bioscience Meeting, 2/2000, Organizer and Chairman
31st Meeting of the Scandinavian Society for Immunology, 8/2000, Meeting President
Member of the Scientific Committee for the International Congress of Immunology
(Stockholm, VIII/2001), Moderator of the Innate Immunity Section
36th joint meeting German and Scandinavian Societies for Immunology, Kiel, 2005
(President of the Scientific Committee, SSI and Chairman, Organizing Committee, SSI)
European Congress of Immunology Meeting, Paris, 2006 (16th EFIS), Steering Committee and
Scientific committee (>5000 participants)
Supervisor of PhD thesis: 19 completed, 2 due in 2007, 8 ongoing
Supervisor for 8 postdoctoral research fellows
Tutor for 32 medical students during their part-time research projects

He became ORPHEUS Executive Committee member February 9, 2007. By decision of Zagreb City Office for General Administration January 26, 2012, the mandate of Seppo Kalevi Meri, as legal representative of ORPHEUS, will finish in 2014. Decision was accepted by General Assembly, Bergen 2012